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I have a bedside toilet I used when my mother was bedridden. I kept it and it has come in handy for hurricanes and camping. It collapses into a neat little packet when not in use. I bought the luxury model - it has a toilet tissue holder on one leg!
Any surface water I would automatically filter and boil.
Since I originally lived in the country (before the country moved away), my food and any supplies that critters would love are stored in metal cans. The tops are secured with bungee cords. I learned the hard way that plastic is considered a good material to sharpen critter teeth and raccoons love to remove lids just to see what is inside.
Since I originally lived in the country (before the country moved away)
I did it the other way, spent most of my life in a (small) city then moved out to the countryside about 16 years ago, although I got out of the city into the surrounding countryside at every opportunity.
I have a bedside toilet I used when my mother was bedridden. I kept it and it has come in handy for hurricanes and camping.
After my mom passed (16 years ago), I was going through all her effects and found quite a number of items, like the commode you mentioned, and decided not to donate them. They were all practically new, so I kept them, cleaned 'em up, and now we have them in case any of us needs these items. I don't think the cost has gone down any! And as you say, they come in handy for camping and other non-medical usage!
The bedside commode is a good idea. We don't want to turn part of our home into a nursing home, but at age 60+ we thought it time to start looking into ideas to extend our self-sufficiency in case of advancing age-related issues. The days of feeling invincible are slipping away.
The idea for longer term storage in canning jars instead of 5 gal buckets was a good one because it's much easier for my wife to handle. She doesn't want anything that she couldn't handle easily on her own.
Any more ideas for easing the demands of the self-sufficient lifestyle for older people?
Any more ideas for easing the demands of the self-sufficient lifestyle for older people?
Maybe we should marry the SS&P and Retirement forums!
Seriously, though, a great many of our regular posters in SS&P tend to be more mature folks. Do you figure our life experiences affect our thinking in this regard? Nahhh...couldn't be!
Seriously, though, a great many of our regular posters in SS&P tend to be more mature folks. Do you figure our life experiences affect our thinking in this regard? Nahhh...couldn't be!
yes, of course it does, I have lost count of the times trying to tell younger folk about something and they just don't get it because they haven't had the benefit of a lifetimes experience.
When you're young and immortal, no ties, no worries, you don't have to provide for a family, you have some slack.
Once you have a wife, kids, your parent's start to age, you are responsible for running a business, suddenly you see how easy it is to lose it or for something to impact you and your family.
So you start looking to the future and ways to protect what you care about whether through investing, saving, starting to stock some extra canned goods, perhaps buying some gold or silver, a generator, etc.
It's a process.
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